A Court of Appeal judge and wife of the former Minister of Information, Chief Nnia Nwodo, Justice Roseline Oby Nwodo died in a London hospital on Tuesday from a cancer related ailment.
In what family members, Friday, described as a double tragedy for the Nwodos, a former Chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State and a cousin to the Nwodos from Leje, Nsukka, Mr.John Nweze, also died on Wednesday after he was hit by an undisclosed ailment.
Justice Nwodo, who was the daughter of the late renowned Abagana Anambra state-born industrialist, Chief Joe Nwankwu, passed on after battling with cancer for a long time in the London hospital.
The bereaved husband, Chief Nwodo could not be reached on phone as he was said to have travelled to London where his wife died to make necessary arrangement ahead of her funeral.
A family member, however, told Vanguard that Justice Nwodo’s death came to them as a shock because they had expected that she would survive the ailment and return to the country to continue with her job .
It was learnt that her health condition, which she had battled for some time, got worse about a month ago when she travelled to United Kingdom to seek medical attention but she could not survive it as she reportedly gave up the ghost last Tuesday.
Justice Nwodo was appointed a magistrate in 1985 and she went on to hold several positions in the judiciary including Chief Magistrate Grade 2, Deputy Chief Registrar (Enugu State High Court) and a Judge of the Federal High Court (Port Harcourt). She was appointed Justice of the Court of Appeal in December 2007.
Her husband, Nnia, was Minister of Information under the late head of state, Sani Abacha.
However, as members of the large Nwodo family were trying to overcome the shock of their wife’s demise, their cousin, Mr. John Nweze, also passed on Wednesday throwing the entire family into deep mourning.
Meanwhile, a formal announcement of the deaths is expected to be made by the family after the husband might have returned from London.
The state Governor, Sullivan Chime, yesterday, reacted to the death of Justice Nwodo, expressing shock and sadness over the development.
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